| United States. Supreme Court, William Cranch - Law reports, digests, etc - 1812 - 516 pages
...dwell upon, is the legal certainty of the complainants' entry. Pursuing the principle that a plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of his adversary's, the defendant has not entered into any discussion relative to the sufficiency of his... | |
| William Ballantine - Entail - 1812 - 272 pages
...OT P0SSESSI0N. RIQHTS of entry are tried in ejectment, in which action the plaintiff recovers on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant;(a) he recovers a possession ; and the right to that possession, since the statute of... | |
| William Selwyn - Nisi prius - 1812 - 732 pages
...legal estate cannot prevail in a court of law (-1). The plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant*. Possession gives the defendant a right against every person who cannot shew a good... | |
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 658 pages
...Wilson, for her dower, as the widow of Ward Wilson the mortgagor. And the argument is, that the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title and not on the weakness of his adversary's. But I do not see the application of this rule to the present case. The plaintiff makes... | |
| South Carolina. Constitutional Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1823 - 512 pages
...the long established, and universally prevailing, rule of law, that the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary. I am sensible of the difficulty which will accrue to purchasers, at sheriff's sales, by this decision... | |
| Henry Roscoe - Actions and defenses - 1825 - 838 pages
...bars the suit of the crown after an adverse possession of sixty years, does not give a title. (J~) The rule that the plaintiff in ejectment must recover upon the strength of his own title, is qualified in its application to the case of landlord and tenant, for a tenant who has come in under... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Henry Blackstone - Law reports, digests, etc - 1827 - 764 pages
...title stands on these pleadings. Now, though it be a general rule that the PlaintifFmust rest on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary, yet here the rule seems to be inverted; the Defendant not having traversed the Plaintiff's title, but... | |
| Joseph Chitty - Civil procedure - 1833 - 1020 pages
...Title, it should HTY. seem that the modern practice narrows the maxim, that the lessor of the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary, for (at least prima facie) mere proof of priority of possession will suffice against a party who acquired... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 602 pages
...action of ejectment. In that action it is a well known principle, that the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary. This principle applies here. The plaintiff must show a clear chain of title, valid and legal in every... | |
| Sir Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas - Land tenure - 1836 - 772 pages
...privity of the mortgagee. Ketch v. Hall, Dougl. 21. The plaintiff in ejectment, also, must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant ; for possession gives the defendant a right against every man who cannot shew a good... | |
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